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Draft letter to RNID Trustees.
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5. The RNID should expand into areas where there is minimal or no support for deaf people. There are a number of Black Holes, and I know that Cornwall is one of them.
I think this is a good idea, having a regional office with a local team that responds to questions, queries and the like would be a good start in spending the money the RNID accumilates each year from its members.
I ceased my membership due to lack of rapour or value really, it wouldn't bother me to re-join if it was to benefit those in real need like the elderly or in fact the homeless.
A higher profile, and I know they have the odd campaign going, spend the money on recruitment of membership and try and target the young for a decent future.
Lets see a membership feedback on a regular basis...
There are a few well read and experienced members on this board that provide a valuable service, offering advice on asking..It costs nothing and is well mean't..
Thank you Andy, MM and the many others that have the stuff the RNID should be listening to..This is a reply to this message.
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Local provision should be by local diktat, who knows what is needed better, they should then be allocated the necessary funding and allowed to operate independently from London too. This would be a scoop for the RNID, to be seen directly empowering local people and local service provision, but they insist on having the say from elsewhere..
As for campaigns, leave those to local areas too, they know what needs doing, and not interested in saving stupid hearing people making themselves deaf., which we feel is NOT The RNID's job, but the health and safety executive. I'm happy for featherstone street to raise the money, so long as they don't have the last word where it goes and it is left to local areas to decide. They appear effective at raising dosh, but no idea how to spend it effectively it's all politics and image. Mercenary ? why not ?
In an UK that is devolving central control to regions, like Scotland, Ireland, and Wales on the way to autonomy, only the RNID keeps a steel grip and runs things from the capital regardless. A dated and patronizing set up. People in charge of their own fate will respond a lot better. I'm happy if they want to collect gongs from the queen so long as we run our own show.This is a reply to this message.
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It is an interesting thread this. Got me thinking, and my thoughts came round to the idea that the RNID should officially split into two personalities: one akin to an institute for hearing, which essentially does what the RNID are doing now, and the other akin to an institute for deaf people, which helps deaf groups build infrastructure for themselves with a view to strengthening the deaf culture.
The first persona, I think, will appeal much more to those who have lost some of their hearing in later life who will refuse to be labelled as actually deaf in any sense; this way the institute could really attract the big numbers and pull the money in, supporting all current services and enhancing them.
The real deaf institute would then be able to ride on the coattails of the other half making shared use of some of the properties and taking a small percentage of the raised funds. This part of the organization should simply invite groups of deaf people to apply for help with setting up some activity, such as a club, theatre production group, sporting activity, etc, and these would all be undertaken locally. Of course, the services of the hearing institute would also be available to deaf people.
I dunno. Just a thought.This is a reply to this message.
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The comments towards RNID are unhelpful and at best petty and childish.
This 'talking down' to deaf people is the sort of very bad behaviour that we have had to put up with from RNID for many years. The comment criticises people on a personal level, but does not address any specific point raised.
The RNID works tirelessly to improve life for the 9 million people in the UK who are deaf or hard of hearing.
Which point is this addressing? Being dependent on handouts instead of being treated equally, with respect and with self-sufficiency is not my idea of an improvement.
Deafness is not exclusive. It affects many many people and to ignore all groups affected by hearing loss to concentrate solely on one particularl group would be detrimental to all concerned and would be an advocacy of the kind of bias that you are so obvioulsy against
Even if it were true that anybody was concentrating on one group of deaf people, this is merely the 'divide and rule' tactic - using other deaf people as 'human shields' to justify everything and anything.
Why not get invloved and do something about it and campaign for Deaf people for RNID. Instead of complaining about how bad the organisation. Why not help to make it better for you and those who share your opinion?
This is a 'distraction' technique; it sets aside the points raised and attempts to make people look bad by suggesting they should be doing this and that. We are getting involved and we are demanding that deaf people be treated equally, with respect and be given self-sufficiency. It is RNID, with their fake 'mask of benevolence' who are getting in the way of those noble things.
I am a hearing person who has a Deaf family member. I am learning sign language via RNID so that i can communicate better with my relative for the first time in my life. For that I am eternally grateful.
This is a misdirection, an appeal to a (false) authority and an appeal to emotion - all fallacies.
If you think that as a hearing person I have no right to work there and work to make life better for Deaf or HoH people then you really are rather cold and cynical.
This is a combination of the straw man and argumentum ad hominem fallacies.
I am not patronising Deaf people by working for RNID and learning to sign. I am spreading the word in the Hearing community that being Deaf is NOT a disadvantage and that other forms of communication are available for all.
Another straw man followed by a comment which is both patronising and incorrect.
If you think I am that bad then you really are more bitter than i imagined. I accept you may have problems with RNID but to attack hearing people who see their work there are fruitful and rewarding is insulting to people like me who only want to do some good.
This comment contains a straw man, an ad hominem argument and a misdirection. If you want to do a good thing for deaf people, you should demand that deaf people are able to speak and act for themselves and be entitled to more respect than dependency on hand-outs.This is a reply to this message.
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I've been blogging for weeks to get the sector who are going deaf or have already acquired it to lobby the NADP to amalgamate with LINK, for separation, and earn their wage....not RNID inclusions, hearing concern are bad enough. We are not HoH we are not 'Deaf' we need a stand alone grouping, the RNID cannot keep its nose out of anything. 'Institutes' are Victorian in nature based on patronization, 2011 the RNID celebrates 100 years of keeping us down.
the RNID hasn't changed that aspect. They are too divorced from the deaf now to ever come back into it, deaf are a different animal these days, they want empowerment, they want to run their own show, they oppose hearing running things...... The RNID keeps an iron grip on its 'infrastructure' to the point it is centrally run from London, and where all the decisions are still made, they are last century really...
Scotland Ireland and Wales want to do their own thing, yet the RNID defiantly refuses to give them free reign or autonomy and treats them like outposts of England, and they still continue to use RNID cash and resources to eliminate local groups.... so they can run everything. Money may talk, it doesn't tell deaf what to do yet...This is a reply to this message.
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